Test 4 · ★ · Saving water and energy at home
Tom leaves his game console on standby all year. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tom · What happens: leave, happen · To what, where: game console, standby
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 89 «Saving water and energy at home» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Tom leaves his game console on standby all year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | nsubj |
| 2 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 console | nmod:poss |
| 4 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 console | compound |
| 5 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 standby | case |
| 7 | standby | standby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | obl |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaves | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | Tom | Tom's game console | standby | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent console=Theme on standby=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
It stores extra energy for later games
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stores | nsubj |
| 2 | stores | store | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 energy | amod |
| 4 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stores | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 games | case |
| 6 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 games | amod |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stores | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | store | present | It | extra energy | for later games | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It uses electricity all year even when not played
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | obj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 played | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 played | advmod |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 played | advmod |
| 9 | played | play | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 uses | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | It | electricity | year | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient | |||
| 2 | not play | participle | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
It uses no electricity because the screen is dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 uses | nsubj |
| 2 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 electricity | det |
| 4 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 uses | obj |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 dark | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 screen | det |
| 7 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dark | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dark | cop |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 uses | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | It | no electricity | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the screen | dark property | tree rules |
Option 4
It makes the console last for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 console | det |
| 4 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | last | last | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 ever | case |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 last | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | It | the console | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | last | infinitive | the console not said here | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
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